Carbon dating has helped us reveal how our bodies work ... A plaque in the foyer of UChicago’s Kent Laboratory building commemorates the discovery, as a National Historic Chemical Landmark designated ...

Anything that was once part of a living object—such as charcoal, wood, bone, pollen or the coprolites found in Oregon—can be sent to a lab where ... too old for carbon-14 dating, so the ...

Radiocarbon dating, also known as carbon-14 dating, is a method to determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years. First developed in the 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard ...

If the gland is enlarged, iodine-131 can be absorbed and will partially destroy it. Carbon-14 Used to date once-living materials. Every living organism contains the radioisotope carbon-14.